Word: game
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only you could see a game in which the key players weren't will Clark or Jose Canseco but Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle. If only you could have witnessed Don Larsen's perfect game or watched Ted William's perfect swing. If only you could have seen a game at Ebbets Field or eaten a pretzel that wasn't cold. If only...
...much better then. So much more honest. So much more exciting. Scandals never occurred. Great players never got traded. Solid managers never got fired. Back then, the players had heart and the game had integrity...
...myths of yesterday haunt every baseball game today. The Cubs, we all knew, never really had a shot at the pennant this year--not because Clark or Kevin Mitchell overwhelmed the young team. No, Don Zimmer was simply leading his team to its tragic, but, alas, inevitable fate. And in 1986, the Red Sox were just fulfilling their destiny. Bill Buckner isn't to blame; he fell victim to Boston's most powerful force--THE JINX...
Next day he returned to the courts and was caught pilfering balls that sailed over the fence by Lawrence Alto, Monroe's recreation-tennis director. "You're going to jail," said Alto menacingly, "or you're going to learn this game." Braden opted for lessons...
...seemed that all Vic had to do was to talk to somebody and he could improve their game," Kramer recalls. Word about Braden's magic touch spread; soon people were signing up as much as two years in advance for his half-hour individual lessons, which usually drew an appreciative nonpaying audience of local toads. He also took time to organize a class of blind children, calling out numbers to help them aim their racquets at machine-propelled balls. "Golly," says Braden, "when the kids hit the ball, I was more thrilled than they were." It was at Rolling Hills...